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The orthopaedic department has dedicated ward with 27 trauma beds on Pembroke ward and alongside patients admitted to other acute surgical wards.

We treat around 360 hip fracture patients per year, 40-50 other femoral fracture (distal and shaft) patients and 30-40 peri-prosthetic femur fracture patients. At any one time there are approx. 22 to 30 femoral fracture inpatients under our care.

We have recently introduced accelerated hip pathway and are continuously improving and are working towards a 24-hour target to theatre from admission for patients with femoral fractures and 36-48 hours target for the periprosthetic fractures. Our aim is to optimise achievement of best practice tariff providing high quality and safe care.

There are 13 Consultant Orthopaedic surgeons, 5 specialist registrars and 6 SAS middle grade doctors. Junior doctor team consists of 10 Core Orth trainee equivalent doctors, 2 FY2s and 1 FY1.  Currently we have two full time qualified Trauma – coordinators.

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Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved.  Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.